9/12/08 - Chabad of Port Washington

Chabad of Port Washington · Email: rabbi@chabadpw.org · Voice: 516-767-8672 · www.ChabadPW.org

	A word from the Rabbi

As we head to the final stretch of the dinner preparations I want to thank the community for the tremendous response of support to the dinner and journal. It is heartwarming to see, during these difficult financial times, such an outpouring of support for a charitable cause. It says a lot about our community and its people. Your support is what helps our Chabad grow both quantitatively and qualitatively, allowing us to offer more community programs and learning opportunities. Thank you!

An exciting facet of this year’s dinner is the silent auction (in addition to our traditional raffle). To spice things up a little, we have decided to begin the silent auction online in advance of the dinner. You can view the list of prizes and put in your bid by clicking here. The auction will continue at the dinner itself with the winners being announced during the Viennese Table part of the evening.

By the way, it is still not too late to sign up for the dinner and place an ad in our journal. The Journal Ad deadline is Monday at Noon. The deadline for dinner reservations is Tuesday at Noon. You do not want to miss this once in a lifetime event. This will be a very special evening, please G‑d, which will show strength and support to our Chabad and all of its divisions, and sanctify the name of Hashem by publicizing Torah and Judaism with a Smile in the presence of many who might otherwise never be exposed to it. This will certainly be NOT just another dinner!

Shabbat Shalom!

Rabbi Shalom M. Paltiel

	Thought you'd enjoy this...

A MUST WATCH:
I don't know if you've ever seen the annual Chabad telethon before, but it is really something to behold. Chassidic rabbis dancing with Hollywood actors and producers along with comedians and popular singers to raise funds for Chabad's outreach and social service programs.

When to Watch: September 14, 2008
4:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT (L.A.) | 7PM - 1AM EDT - (N.Y.)
Where to Watch: New York/New Jersey/Connecticut: WLNY Channel 55 or Watch Live online www.tolife.com. Watch highlights of the show immediatly after the LIVE Telethon: youtube.com/chabadtelethon

Take the time to watch at least a part of it. I promise you will feel prouder than ever to be a Part of the Tribe! Check out what Joey has to say about the Chabad telethon, one of many side-splitting telethon promos on YouTube, click here. And of course, feel free to forward to your friends and family...

	Happening @ Chabad

Membership Drive
If you have not yet signed up as a “Member” of Chabad, please consider doing so. Click here for all the info and online Membership forms. While our doors are open to all, our membership makes us stronger, both financially and communally. The stronger we become the more we can offer our community in terms of programs and services. Plus, with every new family, more and more of our fellow Jews will be enjoying the Chabad experience of warm, non-judgmental, inspiring Judaism. Please help us by inviting your friends to visit our congregation and joining our Chabad House --"The Warmest Place Away From Home."

Click hereto book your High Holiday Seat Reservations
As the holidays approach please talk to your friends and neighbors who don’t have a place to go for the holidays. Tell them they are invited to join you at the Chabad House for the services. We thank you, and so will they!

B"H

Candle Lighting Times for
Port Washington, NY
[Based on Zip Code 11050]

Shabbat Candle Lighting: Friday, Sep. 12	6:51 pm
Shabbat Ends: Shabbat, Sep. 13	7:48 pm

Torah Portion: Ki Teitzei

Kiddush Calendar

The Kiddush at Chabad this week is sponsored by Henry Dacowitz
In honor of his daughter Kerry (Chabad Hebrew School alumnus)
on her graduation from Schreiber
and starting Journalism School at Northwestern University!

Consider sponsoring a future Kiddush at Chabad. Please email info@chabadpw.org

Announcement

Chabad Hebrew School is seeking a community member who would like to work on Sunday mornings in Hebrew School as a shadow for a mildly autistic student.

Hours are every Sunday from 9:00 – 11:00 am. Compensation is available for this amazing Mitzvah and great way to help the Hebrew School and make a difference in a young person’s life.

Please contact Rabbi Weinberg at youth@chabadpw.org or
767-TORAH.

	* PATRONIZE OUR SPONSORS *

	Schedule of Services
Sunday morning Services 9:00 AM Tefillin Club: 11:30 am - 12 noon in the Chabad Library Monday - Friday: 7:00 AM Friday night: 6:30 PM Shabbos 9:30 AM Mincha-Maariv & Shalosh Seudos (3rd meal of Shabbat) at time of Candle lighting

Schedule of Classes

Tanya Class with Rabbi Paltiel
Saturdays, 8:45-9:30 AM

COMING SOON:
JEWISH LEARNING INSTITUTE
Six-week series:
The Kabbalah of Soul
Beginning November 9
@ Chabad, 10 - 11:30 AM
Details to follow

	This Week @ www.ChabadPW.org

Living

	From the Brink of Despair
Dan told me that in recent days, as images of the 9-11 attacks appeared on television again and again with the approach of the anniversary, Sasha had become even more depressed, to the point that he was suicidal.

Spirituality

	When I Started Praying...
It was a simple question. But I don't know how to be simple, my training is in the complex...

Multimedia

	The Bet
Bet may be the second letter of the aleph-bet, but it's also the first letter in the creation of the world—so it contains the whole world inside it. Sounds pretty mystical to me, but somehow Rabbi Infinity makes it simple and practical enough for his little granddaughter.

Women

	A Part of, Apart From
Some things never change. The four seasons. The four directions. The hands on the clock. The rising of the sun and the moonlight in the trees. Mothers are here forever. Their children will always be their children...

	Chabad-Lubavitch News from Around the World

EUROPE

Life Returning to Normal for Georgian Jewish Community

NORTH AMERICA

Forced to Run Once More, Jewish Residents Return to Storm-Tossed New Orleans

THE FAR EAST

Stranded Israeli Travelers Cope With Thailand Protests

NORTH AMERICA

Florida Building Left Stranded by Hurricane to Become a Synagogue

	the parshah in a nutshell

ParshatKi Teitzei

Seventy-four of the Torah's 613 commandments (mitzvot) are in the Parshah of Ki Teitzei. These include the laws of the beautiful captive, the inheritance rights of the first-born, the wayward and rebellious son, burial and dignity of the dead, returning a lost object, sending away the mother bird before taking her young, the duty to erect a safety fence around the roof of one's home, and the various forms of kilayim (forbidden plant and animal hybrids).

Also recounted are the judicial procedures and penalties for adultery, for the rape or seduction of an unmarried girl, and for a husband who falsely accuses his wife of infidelity. The following cannot marry a person of Jewish lineage: a bastard; a male of Moabite or Ammonite descent; a first- or second-generation Edomite or Egyptian.

Our Parshah also includes laws governing the purity of the military camp; the prohibition against turning in an escaped slave; the duty to pay a worker on time and to allow anyone working for you - man or animal - to "eat on the job"; the proper treatment of a debtor and the prohibition against charging interest on a loan; the laws of divorce (from which are also derived many of the laws of marriage); the penalty of 39 lashes for transgression of a Torah prohibition; and the procedures for yibbum ("levirate marriage") of the wife of a deceased childless brother or chalitzah ("removing of the shoe") in the case that the brother-in-law does not wish to marry her.

Ki Teitzei concludes with the obligation to remember "what Amalek did to you on the road, on your way out of Egypt."

	The Jewish Calendar

Friday

Elul 12 | September 12

Nachmanides Born (1294)

Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe visits US (1929)

Elul observances

Shabbat

Elul 13 | September 13

R. Yosef Yitzchak's marriage (1897)

Passing of Ben Ish Chai (1909)

Ethics: Chapters 1 & 2

Elul observances

Sunday

Elul 14 | September 14

Elul observances

Monday

Elul 15 | September 15

Tomchei Temimim founded (1897)

Elul observances

Tuesday

Elul 16 | September 16

Elul observances

Wednesday

Elul 17 | September 17

Noah Dispatches Dove (2105 BCE)

R. Schneur Zalman's parents marry (1743)

Elul observances

Thursday

Elul 18 | September 18

Chai Elul
Passing of Maharal (1609)

Baal Shem Tov Born (1698)

Chassidic Movement Founded (1734)

1st Chabad Rebbe Born (1745)

Chassidic Holiday

12 Days of Reflection

Links

Elul observances

Friday

Elul 19 | September 19

Elul observances

Shabbat

Elul 20 | September 20

Ethics: Chapters 3 & 4

Selichot

Elul observances

	Daily Thought

Gifted and Challenged

Gifted souls enter this world and shine. All that surround them bathe in their light and their beauty. And when they are gone, their light is missed.

Challenged souls enter, stumble and fall. They pick themselves up and fall again. Eventually, they climb to a higher tier, where more stumbling blocks await them. Their accomplishments often go unnoticed—although their stumbling is obvious to all.

But by the time they leave, new paths have been forged, obstacles leveled, and life itself has gained a new clarity for all those yet to enter.

Both are pure souls, G‑dly in essence. But while the gifted shine their light from Above, the challenged meet the enemy on its own ground. Any real change in this world is only on their account.

From the wisdom of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, of righteous memory; words and condensation by Tzvi Freeman. To order Tzvi's book, "Bringing Heaven Down to Earth, click here.

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